Engraving, ca. 1885, Collection of the U.S. House of
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GEDDES, George Washington, a Representative from Ohio; born in Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio,
July 16, 1824; attended the common schools; studied law; was admitted to the
bar in July 1845 and practiced; judge of the court of common pleas of the sixth
judicial district in 1856; reelected in 1861; again elected in 1868, and served
until 1873; resumed the practice of law; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for
judge of the State supreme court in 1872; resumed the practice of law in
Mansfield; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth and to the three succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1887); chairman, Committee on War Claims
(Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses); declined to be a candidate for
reelection in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress; resumed the practice of his
profession; died in Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio, November 9, 1892;
interment in Mansfield Cemetery.